Michelle, thank you for this. Yes. I've seen the same in my own work with AI. The LLMs read intensity and inner conflict as distress to be managed, and I push back on the interpretations regularly. The guardrails are calibrated to the very 'normal' this post critiques.
Extremely thoughtful and nuanced article, thank you for this.
What strikes me most here is the distinction between “feeling better” and becoming more structurally aligned with what someone sees.
The hardest part of some developmental crises is not always the suffering itself, but the moment when previously transparent tensions stop being invisible. And once that happens, returning to old interpretations can become almost impossible.
I appreciate the nuance that multilevel processes and chaos can coexist. You can be reflective, growth-oriented and value driven while struggling to regulate or function within environments that reward fragmentation and non-awareness.
Sometimes the crisis is not pathology in the classical sense, but the cost of no longer being able to unknow what has already become visible.
Ewelina, thank you for this. "The cost of no longer being able to unknow what has already become visible" is so real. That irreversibility is what the classical pathology frame misses. You can't grieve your way back into not seeing what you've already seen.
I would like to add that the guardrails on AI are built for the “norm” and will push you away from what is signaled as distress in any form.
Michelle, thank you for this. Yes. I've seen the same in my own work with AI. The LLMs read intensity and inner conflict as distress to be managed, and I push back on the interpretations regularly. The guardrails are calibrated to the very 'normal' this post critiques.
Extremely thoughtful and nuanced article, thank you for this.
What strikes me most here is the distinction between “feeling better” and becoming more structurally aligned with what someone sees.
The hardest part of some developmental crises is not always the suffering itself, but the moment when previously transparent tensions stop being invisible. And once that happens, returning to old interpretations can become almost impossible.
I appreciate the nuance that multilevel processes and chaos can coexist. You can be reflective, growth-oriented and value driven while struggling to regulate or function within environments that reward fragmentation and non-awareness.
Sometimes the crisis is not pathology in the classical sense, but the cost of no longer being able to unknow what has already become visible.
Ewelina, thank you for this. "The cost of no longer being able to unknow what has already become visible" is so real. That irreversibility is what the classical pathology frame misses. You can't grieve your way back into not seeing what you've already seen.
You can’t unknow it once the structure becomes visible. That irreversibility changes everything.